We’ve been diligently working on 117 East North St. in New Auburn. I just haven’t mentioned it for a while. We have the south room – living room – all wired and sheetrocked and ready to mud and paint. I think the laundry room is totally done, too. So we have been working on what was going to be my piano room and is now planned as the dining room. We decided to take out the arch and totally strip the wall between that room and the kitchen. So that is done. We made a larger, but squared-off, opening between the rooms, and are just finishing getting the header in. It is complicated by the fact that this was once an exterior wall, so is a bit thicker than normal, and the fact that the adjoining wall to the east is not nearly straight up and down. We can’t change the whole wall, so we are trying to gently transition from straight at the opening (because crooked would be obvious there), to the way it is, before you get to the entryway door opening.  Plus there was wiring in that section of wall we removed, so Dad has had to deal with that, too.

Once we get that corner done, we just have to sheetrock the north wall and the opening to the front entryway, get the heat runs under the floor for that room and the living room, make sure all the electrical is pulled to the room directly above (I think it already is), and put down the plywood on the floors. Then it is mud, paint and carpet and the house is done. (I think..) We’re definitely getting there!